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What is Holding SAP-DB Back?

Posted by Cliff on from the yet-another-RDBMS-question dept.

Derek Neighbors queries: "The current story about MySQL 4.0 has erupted into a Postgres vs. MySQL debate. We at GNU Enterprise, who have used about all Free and Propietary databases, would like to know why exactly people arent using SAP-DB? It clearly is on par with Oracle, is GPL and frankly has an awesome support team in SAP AG. There was a PG vs SAP-DB recently. Someone else mentioned that you can get CDROMs for free. So again the question is 'What exactly is hindering a wider acceptance of SAP-DB in Free/Open Software projects?'"

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  1. What SAP doesn't want you to know... by skryche · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has anyone else noticed the mysterious blacked out sections on the SAP-DB history page? Creepy.

  2. Re:one more possible reason... by Tonetheman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Winzip will open tgz files.

    I guess if you cannot figure out how to open the tgz file in Windows, it is probably better that you are not trying to install SAP. Natural selection is a wonderful thing.

  3. Because... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For me the reason is because it _IS_ licensed under the GPL.

    I'll take PostreSQL any day, thank god for that license.

  4. Re:sapdb is too complicated - interbase/firebird. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I also like Interbase/Firebird. Good tradeoff between ease of use and functionality.

    Does it beat vi / grep?

  5. Re:Umm... by crawling_chaos · · Score: 3, Funny
    Not sure what business a database has driving a tape deck directly anyway.

    Bastard DBA From Hell Response:
    That's where we keep the temporary table space for users we don't like. Can't get punchcard systems anymore dammit.

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    -- Colonel Adolphus Busch
  6. Dude! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't know about you, but I would so hire an electrician that only had a pair of dykes and a roll of electrical tape!

    Use your imagination!

  7. Double Negative.. by tommck · · Score: 4, Funny
    has a build system that could be only described as ununderstandable

    That's not a word! You should have said "derstandable"! ;-)

    T

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